WARP & WEFT: WOVEN TEXTILES IN FASHION, ART AND INTERIORS

Edited by Jessica Hemmings

Interview with Philip Beesley

"The component meshworks are deliberately weak and fragile - they are designed to share and shed their forces. Directly like the intermeshed structures of a woven textile, the system gains resiliency and strength by densely combining many small elements. Temperature, human occupation and environmental cycles all directly work on these sensitive components and the materials soak up that influence..."